The French want to turn Louis XIV into Louis 14. Who do they think he is – a footballer?
Funny lot, the French. Even as Emmanuel Macron and his European colleagues perform ever more absurd contortions over the AstraZeneca vaccination – it doesn’t work… just look at all the blood clots across the continent… but that doesn’t mean we’re not going to commandeer millions of shots – trouble of an equally knicker-twisting variety is brewing far closer to home, on his doorstep, in fact.
The Carnavalet Museum of Parisian History has decreed that, for the sake of “universal accessibility”, the use of Roman numerals is to be severely restricted, so that from now on Louis XIV will be known as Louis 14. The head of visitor services says: “We have nothing against Roman numerals, but they can be an obstacle to understanding.”
